Youth in Extremely Difficult Life Situations

Interrogating Assumptions about “ Difficult ” Patients and Situations

The phenomenon of health care professionals labeling patients as “difficult” is not limited to psychiatric settings and literature. In the broader medical literature, patients have been described in similar terms as “hateful” [3] or “heartsink” [4]. The description of this phenomenon in different health care settings during decades of practice and as explored in the health professions literatur...

Obstetric difficult airway guidelines - decision-making in critical situations.

Consistency of sentence intelligibility across difficult listening situations.

PURPOSE The extent to which a sentence retains its level of spoken intelligibility relative to other sentences in a list under a variety of difficult listening situations was examined. METHOD The strength of this sentence effect was studied using the Central Institute for the Deaf Everyday Speech sentences and both generalizability analysis (Experiments 1 and 2) and correlation (Analyses 1 an...

Marijuana and driving in real-life situations.

It is evident that the smoking of marijuana by human subjects does have a detrimental effect on their driving skills and performance in a restricted driving area, and that this effect is even greater under normal conditions of driving on city streets. The effect of marijuana on driving is not uniform for all subjects, however, but is in fact bidirectional; whether or not a significant decline o...

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...